The Twitter Files Show the Unholy Alliance Between State and Corporate Power.

Read the latest installment of the Twitter Files (this one on covid) by David Zweig and my latest in The Spectator.

Early covid dissenters have been waiting for the covid Twitter Files. Today we got our wish. And, as you might have guessed, Twitter did in fact rig the covid debate by censoring true but inconvenient information.

By “inconvenient,” I mean anything that went against official U.S. covid policy. Question the need for vaccines for all? Become a target of the U.S. government which then, in turn, used Twitter to censor you.

As if on cue, my piece in The Spectator was published this morning as well. It lines up pretty directly with what David Zweig writes in The Free Press, where he expands on his covid Twitter Files tweet thread.

In summary, the government targeted specific users — even experts — who called into question anything but absolute covid fear and undying loyalty to the vaccines for ALL. And Twitter obliged the requests from government officials — more often than not, Democrats.

Interestingly, the head of U.S. Policy at Twitter, Lauren Culbertson, makes her debut in this release of the Twitter Files. She writes that the Biden team was “very angry” that Twitter wasn’t more aggressive in censoring people dissenting on covid.

This says a lot.

1. Twitter has a head of U.S. Policy.

2. Covid dissenting — or just asking questions — officially went against U.S. policy.

3. Covid dissenters were targeted by the U.S. government, which then carried out its censoring via Twitter (and other social media platforms.)

Included in my piece in The Spectator is a bit more about how this type of censorship happened beyond Big Tech, at companies across sectors. My former company, Levi’s, “asked” me not to share anything on social media about the California Governor recall election.

Political speech is protected speech. In fact, the First Amendment elevates political speech above all other forms of expression by prohibiting laws that regulate it (unless the laws are narrowly tailored). Who needs laws when corporations just do the government’s bidding! With or without being asked!

There’s a name for it when private companies and the government work hand in hand.

“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini

I wrote about all this and more in my book, Levi’s Unbuttoned, which if you haven’t gotten yet, you should! If you have, I’d be honored if you’d let me know what you think — leave a review, email me through this thing, post about it on Twitter. Even if you didn’t like it! I want to hear from you.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and/or Hanukkah! My family enjoyed!